Through quantitative evaluation of the data and information compiled in the literature review and survey, an explicitly defined list of alternatives and decision criteria to evaluate rehabilitation alternatives was developed for culverts 122 centimeter (48 inch) in diameter or smaller. Relative weights of each criterion were assigned in comparison to the defined alternatives, thereby allowing a...

BACKGROUND Systematic and transparent approaches to priority setting are needed, particularly in low-resource settings, to produce decisions that are sound and acceptable to stakeholders. The EVIDEM framework brings together Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) by proposing a comprehensive set of decision criteria together with standardized processes to...

As healthcare resources become increasingly scarce due to growing demand and stagnating budgets, the need for effective priority setting and resource allocation will become ever more critical to providing sustainable care to patients. While societal values should certainly play a part in guiding these processes, the methodology used to capture these values need not necessarily be limited to mul...

The suggested approach, FMAA (Fuzzy Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis), assimilates uncertainties/ imprecisions of objective values and subjective judgments within the discrete Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The presented algorithm for FMAA implementation utilizes fuzzy criterion values and fuzzy weight coefficients based on the use of fuzzy numbers, integral measure to assess the ...

The selection of metrics for ecosystem restoration programs is critical for improving the quality and utility of design and monitoring programs, informing adaptive management actions, and characterizing project success. The metrics selection process, that in practice is left to the subjective judgment of stakeholders, is often complex and should simultaneously take into account monitoring data,...

[Context and motivation]: Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) are two fields that naturally complement each other for providing decision support. Particularly, GORE techniques complement MCDA in terms of problem structuration and visualization of alternative evaluation, and MCDA techniques complement GORE in terms of alternative elimination ...

An interactive decision support tool based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) can help health professionals integrate the principlist (principle-based) and casuist (case-based) approaches to ethical decision making in both their training and practice. MCDA can incorporate generic ethical principles as criteria; then draw on case-based reasoning as the basis for specifying, in the indivi...

The field of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is now mature, with several welldeveloped methodologies, a growing number of real-world interventions and a strong society that joins together researchers and practitioners all over the world. We believe that a new generation of multi-criteria decision analysts is emerging – interested in doing research and/or employing MCDA methodologies int...

BACKGROUND Consistent healthcare decision making requires systematic consideration of decision criteria and evidence available to inform them. This can be tackled by combining multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA). The objective of this study was to field-test a decision support framework (EVIDEM), explore its utility to a drug advisory committee and test...

Geographic information science (GIS) and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) disciplines combine to provide valuable insights which guide decision-makers evaluating complex spatial criteria and alternatives, especially when there are conflicting stakeholder values and objectives. Although GIS and MCDA methods have been integrated to support forward-looking decision analyses, there is also ad...